23 February

How to give bad news by email

How to give bad news by email

Giving bad news is part and parcel of many people’s working life. You may have to tell a long-standing client you’ll no longer be supplying the service they rely on, let  an employee know their request for extra staff has been rejected, or inform a partner in a project that you won’t be able to meet […]

22 February

Emails – Done is better than perfect!

Emails – Done is better than perfect!

Here’s a question for you (though perhaps not one you want to hear 😉 ): How many emails have you got sitting in your inbox waiting for a reply at the moment? And if you take a closer look: Why haven’t you replied yet? If I think about my own inbox, there are two very […]

24 November

Let’s talk about DeepL

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Let’s talk about DeepL

  People often tell me about the wonders of DeepL, a tool which translates their mails into English in a matter of seconds. Knowing how much time it can take to write an English email, I certainly understand the appeal. And machine translation has come a long way since the days when the output was […]